[I am Yeon Gaesomun, Great General of Great Goguryeo. Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, do you truly surrender?]
[Please spare my life, General!]
In the scene before them, the Goguryeo army had breached Chang'an—and not just any Chang'an, but the Chang'an under Li Shimin's rule during the Zhenguan Era!
And Li Shimin himself, the Heavenly Khan, had actually been shot blind in one eye by Goguryeo men on the battlefield, reduced to a one-eyed man!
In the end, Li Shimin, clad in a bright yellow dragon robe, had actually been forced to kneel and beg the enemy general Yeon Gaesomun for mercy in order to live!
Li Shimin had originally been curious what kind of lofty, heroic image later generations of other nations would make of him.
But the instant he saw this scene, he shot up from his chair!
"Is that me?"
"I was actually shot blind in one eye? I would actually kneel before Goguryeo and beg to surrender?"
"I would even cede everything north of the Yangtze River, leaving my Great Tang with only half its realm?"
"Outrageous! Damn their mothers—what do they take me for?!"
At this moment, Li Shimin's face was incomparably grim, and his wide-open eyes brimmed with terrifying killing intent!
He was such a proud emperor, believing himself second to none in all his life!
Even the Wei River Pact had been regarded by him as the shame of a lifetime; after enduring it for only a few years, he had directly destroyed the Eastern Turkic Khaganate to wash away that humiliation!
Yet now, a special shadow-puppet play from another country in later generations had portrayed an emperor as formidable as him in such a disgraceful, revolting state!
How could Li Shimin possibly endure this?
If this thing spread, he, Li Shimin, would